here are more post-posting updates and additional bits for the post "Here's what I'd do if I were a twenty-something working toward her first $1,000,000; luckily for us, I was that twenty-something *hair-flip*"
cause it's getting out of control, y'all, and that post was already 9K+ words long *sweats*
(be sure to refresh often, i'm on here, often)
&you can find "[Part One?]" here
Part Two End Date: 30sep2026
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oh yea, i also worked for my professor at CU, lol [20sep2026]
i'm just now remembering this, cause i'm eyeballing that $1,000,000 post, again, to see if anything comes up, and here we are!
when i returned to school in boulder, one of my art history professors hired me as her library proxy.
*teacher's pet*
i logged my own hours, and she paid me $10/hr at the end of the week.
(i think i typically made about $100-$150/week)
my job was simply to pickup and return her library books, lol.
i also had to run to a printing/shipping place across from campus and do mass print-offs for her master's level seminars, etc.
in short, i carried around both a credit card (with her name on it) and a library card (with her name on it), and i had to sign some paperwork at the library to be her official proxy.
one week, during one of her classes, she was polling the class about a not-class-time event.
she asked if "anyone has an 8 am class on Friday morning."
everyone looked around and shook their heads.
i raised my hand, "I don't have class, but I'm not available."
she looked at me, "Where could you possibly have to be at 8 am on a Friday morning?"
"My job," i responded.
she looked utterly confused, cause she knew she paid me to do stuff for her, "You have a job?"
i blew her mind, cause i was the top performer in the class (in all my major classes, actually, lol), invited to be part of the senior level seminars my junior year and master's level seminars my senior year, etc., and it was this professor who wanted to sponsor me as an honor's student, etc.
"Yea, I open at Starbucks on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays," i explained.
the entire lecture hall fell silent, and everyone turned to look at me.
some dumbass classmate yelled, "Oh yea, I heard that Starbucks people start at like five!"
"I start at 4:30," i eye-rolled.
after a beat the professor finally said, "Okay, well, Tiffany, we'll just go over everything when you come by to do print offs. Everyone else, we'll do Friday at 8."
yes, of course, i saw the newest episode of South America [20sep2026]
i watch the show (and everything created by them) religiously.
as a "native" coloradan (not in an indigenous sense, obviously, but rather, in the sense that i had no choice in being raised in colorado, as this is where the people who adopted me were located, etc.) and fellow graduate of the state's flagship university, i have always been a fan of both South Park and its creators. my fandom is so great, in fact, that it is one of my money monuments to somehow, someday own the South Park brand, lol. they're both about fifteen years older than me, so one assumes that i'd be able to helm the brand for about a decade if/when they're "too old" to work, etc. hopefully they will live a long life, and i am able to work with them for some period of time, etc.
anyway,
the reason why i'm even writing about this show, now, is because the show has transformed in a way that's both environmentally epic and financially fascinating.
the show is now being treated as if the residents of South Park are living in South America.
this is both tragedy and comedy, obviously.
&we all know how i feel about tragedy.
(it's my first love, if you don't know *eyeroll*)
that's the environmentally epic change.
the other thing is all of the point-blank brand-name dropping!
what the fuck.
why?
why are they doing this?
i am obviously not privileged enough to be privy to this sort of decision-making/plot-designing or whatever. what i can tell, however, is that there's been a MAJOR change.
so, here are my very superficial routes:
- they have opened the show to advertisers and have official brand sponsorships
- brands approached them, &they were offered so much money, they officially sold out
- brand sponsorships are rampant in south american television?
- the creators do not have official brand deals, thereby daring these companies to sue them if they (the companies) do not like being associated with the show, etc.
- they've been "okay'd" to name these brands at their own (south park creator's) expense, but no money has been exchanged for doing so, etc.
ugh, if only i could be a fly on the wall of every room these two walk into *sigh*
anyway,
i think there were maybe about half-a-dozen brand names explicitly named throughout the episode, and since i don't want to watch the episode again, just yet, the four main brands i absolutely remember were The Cheesecake Factory, Walmart, Jamba Juice (although, it's just Jamba these days, lol), and Grand Theft Auto 6, and Grand Theft Auto 6 is the really important thing happening this November, lol.
there will always be women out there ... [13sep2026]
who will see you, be inspired by you,
who then go off and pretend as if what they saw and implemented in their own life
was their own idea
&they will never give you credit
for giving them both the idea
&the courage.
there's nothing you can do about them
all you can do is continue doing you
cause at the end of the day
that Loser
will get what she's earned:
nothing
&it's not your job to make people realize their terribleness
simply rest in the assurance that her interior life
her "real life"
is an absolute hellscape
of her own making.
rest easy, you beautiful, creative soul
EVERYONE GETS THEIR DUE
but we're not all going to be privy to their specific karma
nevertheless
absolutely do not worry about the Losers
NOW I'M GOING TO TELL MY PERIOD STORY! [04sep2026]
(i'm not gonna tell my period story, i just want any men lurking around here to get the fuck out.)
if/when a male person (of any age) comes at you like he's some intellectual
all you gotta do to make him shut up is cut him off
and say something to the effect of, "Wow, you really are quite the equivocator."
equivocating is just intellectual blahism for "blow hard"
and then
if he gets all pissed about it
and tries to get you to prove that "you don't even know what equivocating means"
tell him, "you're a textbook Kantian"
if he doesn't know who Immanuel Kant is
it's hard to say how he will respond
but either way
it'll be a stupid response, cause he's stupid
so simply react accordingly.
if he does know who Kant is
then he will scoff and think you're stupid
cause Kant is "largely revered" by anyone who is stupid
cause the reality is that Kant was one of those "philosophers"
who sat in his room
never leaving it
looking at the world through his window
while saying shit
and cis White men think his "assessments" are "awesome"
whenever a man tries to challenge me
by asking me if i even know what some word even means
he's cluing you into the fact that he does not know what the word means
(again, this is why, as a woman, being good at poker is so important
&i don't mean for you to go out there and start gambling
just play with your friends
and invite the boys from time to time
&you gotta play for money
real money
tournament style
like even $1 is enough)
you've got nothing to lose
he already thinks you're stupid
so you don't have to prove yourself to him
don't waste the energy
just double down with the Kantian (it's a hard-T, KaaanT [like the way a briton would say "can't"] + the name Ian, Kaant-EE-EN or even like an "ehn" Kaant-EE-ehn)
that ought to be enough for him to get the point ...
you think he's stupid
lol
On Failure [03sep2026]
here's the thing about failure, and it's the thing that nobody seems to understand *sigh*
imagine with me, if you will:
you're going about your life on a scale of one to ten
you're at ten
cause you woke up this morning
you're alive
you're well-fed
you're doing it
TEN
just your regular day
every day is a flat-TEN
what happens
though
when you try something
is that you sorta jump up higher than a TEN
maybe an eleven
maybe even all the way to thirteen
&at some point
you realize that you're not going to quite make it to your goal of eleven or thirteen
so you're "failing"
cause it feels like you're "falling"
back down to TEN
cause you are
you didn't quite make it
but when you land
you will not land back at TEN
you will land
at the very least
at TEN.01
cause you tried
which means that
at the very least
you learned something
at the very most
you succeeded and reached that ELEVEN or THIRTEEN
and somewhere in between
you landed somewhere around ten.5 or twelve
and so
for some of us
there is no such thing as failure
because we try
and try again
weak men call it "failing upward"
I CALL IT EXPANSION,
because with every new day
i am more powerful than i was before today.
what does it mean that a company's main revenue stream is ad-revenue? [03sep2026]
there are businesses that sell products.
there are businesses that sell products,
and then they buy advertising space to advertise these products
on various platforms where human eyeballs will see them.
there are businesses that sell advertising space,
and they sell either the time or the air or the paper
wherein an advertisement can be seen, aired, or printed on paper.
there are businesses that sell a product
so that they can sell advertisement space to businesses that want to advertise their products on/through their product.
i'll simply use musicians and "music influencers" as a simple example,
cause this is a blog:
"famous" or "mainstream" (i.e. bought and paid for, like a whore to pimps) musicians make music,
and they are paid for their music.
the music, itself, is what they're being paid to produce
thus, these types of musicians have a music business wherein they sell their songs for money
(music is another elitist-cunt industry, so it's much more complicated than this,
but i'm merely trying to outline the different types of ads a person can become)
anything that they produce is, in effect, a product that they're selling
MUSIC
and so,
their revenue is flowing to them through their music, their production, their product
whenever they sell a song.
now,
as soon as that musician sells his/her face to promote something that is not their music
they are officially an ad,
and now,
the cash that is flowing to them in this way is revenue that they are making
as the person being paid to promote a product aka be an advertisement.
now,
let's say this musician has a website where other people can pay to promote their shit on his/her website,
the cash that is flowing to them in this way is ad-revenue.
"Influencers" are the people who aspire to generate only ad-revenue
the difference between being paid to be an ad (a prominent person or unknown actor selling you something)
paying to advertise (a business w/an actual product to sell)
and generating ad-revenue (an influencer)
is the difference between being an Idiot Influencer (Fuckerberg &Fartman)
and an Entrepreneur (Every Female Entrepreneur &Musk)
"Idiot Influencers" and Entrepreneurs ARE NOT THE SAME
Idiot Influencers are "building their platforms" aka living like jesus, off of eyeballs like yours.
they have not produced a product.
they're clowning in front of you to get your attention.
if you are following someone,
you have been transformed into a number that that "influencer" can then "sell"
as proof that they have enough eyeballs looking at them
so that companies will pay them to advertise/promote/name drop their brand.
these types do not care about whatever they're selling you to get you to "follow" them.
they are not "creators"
they regurgitate
they're ads.
they simply need you to follow so that they can live as an ad
and get paid to sell you shit you don't need,
and then,
these types have the gall to tell you how to make money!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
This is the line ... does the platform exist so that the platform can run ads?
OR
does the platform exist because someone has a vision
and the only thing being sold there
is their vision?
so then
what's the "grey area" look like?
of course there are websites, shows, apps, magazines, podcasts that sell shit,
but some of these "businesses" don't sell anything
they just get a lot of traffic for any number of reasons
and so
they run their website for the sole purpose of running ads
that you will see
and hopefully click on.
they don't care about whatever is happening on the site
they only care about turning you
a human
into a view count or a click.
&as you can see
there are no ads on me :)
&i never cared about views or clicks before
so why would i care now?
&if you don't understand why i have a view-count ticker
you're an Idiot.
"she's obviously part of the Musk-Cult whatever; she never says anything bad about him" [date of posting]
what bad thing do you want me to say about him?
that
with/through &upon Empire
he has
single-handedly [not literally but ideologically, absolutely]
brought the internet to the women of the world?
[added 02sep26 good to see you, ladies ^..^ saw you blip back about three or four days ago, after longer than a week cutoff this time, and charging again, fast, to the top, at number eight, today :]
oh, and he's not gauging them?
if you do not understand what his companies (all of them, since his very first) are able to bring to the rest of the world
then you're the problem
not him.
(this is also why some parts of the rest of the world
the most-misogynistic parts
don't like him, either
cause he is bringing a sort of "freedom" to women
the world over
&yea, maybe it's not the best strategy to
essentially
mine Empire for the rest of the world
&despite however the media portray him
&or whatever downside you think i'm missing
what is he really communicating through his efforts?)
&if you're so desperate to find an Elitist White man to villainize
start with James Comey
like duh
what is my business? [date of posting]
our (the bodybuddy/lifemate &i) are in the business of business
in the most-technical, straight-forward terms
we develop business ideas into various stages of development
for instance,
does anyone remember The Devil's Donut Holes?
anyone been around here long enough for those days?
well, let's say you wanted to start a donut business
well, you could buy our business plan at all sorts of various stages of development
("buy" is a loose term here, because we also help you at whatever amount you want/need)
say, the plan alone
or the business ready to walk into and operate
and everything in between.
we do other stuff, these days
like my new sewing endeavors
and we still develop businesses
but these days
our business is structured for figuring out how businesses operate, etc.
we do a lot more poking around the underlying structural organization of business operations, etc.
this is what i do
cause i can do it all day, like breathing, and i do it so much and so easily that i'm willing to do it for free, but obviously, i don't, unless you really need my help and can't pay, no problem
i organize shit
maybe there's some like hoity-toity elitist title for this sorta thing
but i can guarantee you
they are not like me
lol
and i didn't like my mother's idea of organizing people's closets
so i organize business structures
i am not interested in providing too many more details here
for reasons
so i'll leave it at that
if you are not currently an entrepreneur
either because you're "too young" or you just haven't ever considered it
and what i've just described above
makes sense to you
you have a mind for business
just fyi *wink wink*
i am not peddling "advice" [date of posting]
i write about my experience with money
i share my opinion about money
&the only advice that i claim to share is:
LEARN ABOUT MONEY
WHAT IT IS
&HOW IT GROWS
then you will know when/where and why to put your money wherever you ultimately decided to put it.
if others are telling you what to do
they are trying to indoctrinate you
into their system
no different than jesus.
THAT IS NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING, HERE.
HERE, you are ENCOURAGED to seek the Truth.
if you don't like what i have to say here, leave.
if you like some of what i say, take whatever you want.
if you like it all, then do whatever works for you.
why the fuck would i ever care about what you do with your life?
i am not the one who has to live your decisions,
YOU ARE.
why do i love Martha Stewart soooooo much? [24aug2026]
(this is not a mistake, i am reposting this AGAIN, here, too)
She's one of those handful of people who can teach you how to cook
by getting you from 0 to 1
and then beyond
obviously
you gotta learn from her through her own videos
you gotta watch her do it
and you gotta hear her speak about food as she's cooking it
anyone can cook a steak
Martha teaches women how to cook a steak
but better yet, she teaches you why you should be learning how to cook steak
she pays attention to what women pay attention to
and all of her recipes make sense
She is the reigning Master of teaching the "every woman" how to cook
and she does it because she knows how much money it can save you
cause she came from finance, y'all.
She cares more that you learn to cook for yourself in order to save yourself money
She does not care about teaching you how to make money as a "chef" or whatever.
If you listen to what she says, she says things like, [paraphrased] "This is exactly how they do it in those expensive fancy restaurants, and can you believe it, you can do it yourself at home for ten bucks."
Saving you money has always been Martha's true, deep mission
but americans are fickle people
and they resist learning
at every cost
and so
they must be tricked
and this is a type of skill that only a rare few possess
and historically, they've been called "witches"
in a derogatory sense
lol
[added 30aug2026]
also, it was james comey who took her down
just like he took down Hillary Clinton
if he is not the most-anti-feminist man in our recent history
i dunno who is
&i don't like to tell people what to do
so hopefully you know what to do with this information, y'all.
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